The Three Phases of Jihadism
... which was pre-millenarian. By the same token, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi independently developed a form of jihad ... ... sectarian. He was far more focused on killing Shias than westerners, targeting the heretics before the real ... ... eventually became the Caliphate. The third phase of Jihadism did not take place on the stage of satellite ... ... them to build a mechanism that would lead to the Islamic State and to the Caliphate which was proclaimed ... ... boots on the ground: the 2015 JCPOA agreement allowed Russia to increase presence in Syria and send forces ...
08.05.2019